Person

ISBN-13: 9780521776691 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 348 str.

Anna Siewierska; S. R. Anderson; J. Bresnan

Opis

Drawing on data from over five hundred languages, Anna Siewierska compares the use of person within and across different languages, and examines the factors underlying variation. Siewierska demonstrates how person forms vary in substance (how large they are), in the nature of the semantic distinctions they convey (e.g., gender, number, case), and in their use in sentences and discourse. The textbook covers the grammatical category of person, which includes the first person (the speaker), the second person (the hearer), and the third person (neither the speaker nor the hearer).

Recenzje

'Any naive expectation that person is a straightforward category of grammar, with few differences among languages, is quickly dispelled by the immense complexity of the data presented. … [it contains] an enormous amount of information collated over years of painstaking consultation of grammars and presented for the first time. … a goldmine of inspiration. … Siewierska is to be congratulated on establishing the study of person as a unified, if highly complex, field within linguistics.' Folia Linguistica

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. The typology of person forms; 3. The structure of person paradigms; 4. Person agreement; 5. The function of person forms; 6. Person forms and social deixis; 7. Person forms in a diachronic perspective.